MYSORE, India — Employers around the world share a familiar complaint: Universities often don’t prepare students for fast-changing job demands. Too many new graduates need extra preparation before they’re workforce-ready. In India, rather than waiting for higher education to catch up, major employers are designing their own education programs for new hires. It’s a model that offers a glimpse of where some American firms may be heading. Rishi Agrawal knows the college-to-career disconnect firsthand — along with one influential company’s solution. He grew up in a small village in central India.

Employers say universities often don’t prepare students for fast-changing job demands, and new graduates are not workforce-ready. In India, major employers are designing their own education programs f...

The job market stinks and AI is gumming up application systems. So old-fashioned people skills are the new must-have asset.

The statement is selling a naked ideological agenda as a defense of campus free speech

AI is already displacing entire sectors of American workers, from software engineers to music producers. But even in an age of machines, we will still need teachers, construction workers, airline…

Podcast Episode · Higher Ed Spotlight · 03/20/2025 · 19m

With traditional higher ed getting more scrutiny than ever in 2025, my latest #HigherEdSpotlight guest is Kathleen deLaski, author of "Who Needs College…

Kathleen deLaski's new book asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.

Kathleen deLaski's new book asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.

Kathleen deLaski's new book asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.

Kathleen deLaski's new book asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.

Join Alex Usher on the World of Higher Education podcast as he revisits 'The Great Brain Race' with author Ben Wildavsky. They explore the book's thesis on globalization in higher education, the tr...

Higher education in the U.S. is so much more than its selective colleges—and can be fairer for so many more students

Jefferson believed in the egalitarian potential of education, and we should, too.

As vocational apprenticeships become less popular, more young Germans take the both/and path of pairing an applied-sciences degree with a new kind of apprenticeship.

Ben Wildavsky and Richard Whitmire write that something ominous may be behind declines in freshman enrollments.

SXSW EDU 2024 Schedule | Public opinion continues to sour on the value of college, and that has contributed to enrollment drops at many colleges and universities in recent years. On this live taping o...

Ushering poorer students into short-term, non-degree programmes will suppress their wages and upward mobility, says Ben Wildavsky